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		<title>How should CWaC spend YOUR money?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An invitation to West Cheshire residents to influence how the authority spends their Council tax over the next decade has had a record response. The public interest, over 700 replies so far, has been so encouraging that Cheshire West and Chester Council is to extend the consultation for a further fortnight. Originally due to end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Community Forum: Monday, 13th September</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, 13th September, 2010 at 6.00 pm &#8211; St Werburgh&#8217;s Centre, Brook Street, Chester Agenda: 18:00 &#8211; 18:30 -> Completely informal, speak to ward Councillors, PCSOs, Police Officers, Wardens &#038; Street Scene 18:30 &#8211; 19:30 -> Your Issues &#8211; Your chance to raise anything affecting your local community, or ask for things to be included [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richard-lowe.co.uk/2010/09/next-community-forum-monday-13th-september/</link>
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		<title>Balls&#8217; Borrowing Obsession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Ed Balls the Government should spend more. By borrowing more. Yes, that great beacon of socialism thinks Britain should both increase its deficit AND debt. As Margaret Thatcher once famously said: &#8220;Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people&#8217;s money.&#8221; According to Ed Balls this isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richard-lowe.co.uk/2010/09/balls-borrowing-obsession/</link>
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		<title>The Nanny State is Dead &#8211; Long Live Freedom and Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This is an open response to Cllr Reggie Jones, a Labour Councillor for Blacon in Chester) Oh what a delight it must be to live in Labour Land, where the Government should interfere, spy on, and be treated to jubilation and praise by its ever thankful population. Or so Cllr Reggie Jones would have you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richard-lowe.co.uk/2010/09/the-nanny-state-is-dead-long-live-freedom-and-society/</link>
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		<title>My planning speech against a HMO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, thank you for allowing me to speak Mr Chairman. The application on its own merits has flaws &#8211; it is a retrospective application, but not labelled as such; indeed, at least one student is already in occupation. Work began on this property after April began, as the former occupier did not leave until March [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richard-lowe.co.uk/2010/09/my-planning-speech-against-a-hmo/</link>
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		<title>Labour&#8217;s Short Term Memory Loss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 9th 2009, the Labour Department of Health planned the following: Subject to a consultation launched on 9 July 2009 by Ofcom, a number of strategic health authority areas will pilot the use of 111 from spring 2010, with the intention of extending coverage to all of England if the pilots are successful. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richard-lowe.co.uk/2010/08/labours-short-term-memory-loss/</link>
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		<title>Regressive or Realistic?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Balls says that as a result of the IFS&#8217; report into the emergency budget that: “The government’s ideological assault on our welfare state and public services is not simply economic vandalism, I fear it will damage the very fabric of our society too.” Right, so Labour don&#8217;t ideologically believe in spending more and taxing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richard-lowe.co.uk/2010/08/regressive-or-realistic/</link>
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		<title>Community Event at the Groves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Members of the public got the chance to quiz their Councillors, find out what&#8217;s going on in the City and win a pair of tickets to Chester Zoo last weekend. The Councillors took a stand at the Groves last weekend. Councillor Richard Lowe said, &#8220;The event has proven to be a fantastic success. We now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richard-lowe.co.uk/2010/08/community-event-at-the-groves/</link>
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		<title>Thought for the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the first person climbed Mount Everest in 1953, and subsequently there have been over 4,000 successful ascents, has Everest got easier and more adaptable over time? Unlikely; better equipment, planning &#038; health are more viable answers. So why then, on A-Level &#038; GCSE results day do we always find criticism that exams are easier, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richard-lowe.co.uk/2010/08/thought-for-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Is age more than just a number?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Twitter last night, Iain Lindley, Rob Chilton and myself were discussing a 20 year old becoming an Australian MP. Rob felt he would lack experience, whilst Iain and I believed that if you&#8217;re old enough to vote, you&#8217;re old enough to stand. To expand on this, the people of Longman, Queensland, voted for Wyatt [...]]]></description>
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